Darina Allen is inspired by her stay at Coombeshead Farm for this week's recipes

A FEW weeks ago we flew from Cork Airport to Bristol, hired a car and headed for Devon and Cornwall.

I’d forgotten how beautiful the English countryside can be, the abundance of wildflowers in the hedgerows and so many beautiful mature trees. One can’t but draw comparison to our Irish countryside, so often denuded of hedgerows and with so few mature trees.